Marinwood and Lucas Valley residents turned out en masse Wednesday to voice concerns about various housing and land use issues in the area to Marin County Supervisor Susan Adams.

Nearly 200 people attended the heated meeting at the Marinwood Community Center, where residents took turns accusing Adams of failing to listen to them. Adams is targeted for recall by a Marinwood group that claims concerns about land use and housing issues have fallen on deaf ears.

"When did you stop working for the cows and start working for the condos?" said Marinwood resident John Castellucci, as audience members waved around cowbells. "We need you to get the high-density, urban housing zoning reverted."

Adams kicked-off the meeting by giving a half-hour presentation on the history of Marinwood Plaza near Highway 101, the history of Grady Ranch, the county's housing element, removing Marinwood from a high-density housing zone known as a "priority development area" and Plan Bay Area — a regional planning and transportation document that envisions 30-unit-per-acre affordable developments along Marin's Highway 101 corridor. She kept repeating that just because people are entitled to build, doesn't mean they will.

"The potential for development does not equate with building the development," Adams said.

One of the hottest topics of discussion during the meeting was the priority development area in Marinwood. Adams has called for Marinwood to be removed from the high-density affordable housing zone, stating she was unaware sections of the community were included in the zoning list. Adams, former vice chairwoman of the Association of Bay Area Governments, which is among regional agencies pushing the high-density zoning, previously said an ABAG map she hadn't seen before revealed the extent of Marinwood's inclusion and claimed printed documents were not as detailed.

Alissa Chacko, an organizer of the Adams recall effort, said there is no way Adams could not have known about the map.

"Every map since 2008 has depicted Marinwood as in the priority development area," Chacko said. "You're pulling it because we just found out about it."

Critics of the priority development area claim high-density housing will lead to more traffic congestion, a loss of local control, put more stress on community services, burden already strained school budgets and create a location for more crime. There are also concerns these areas will attract nonprofit housing projects able to circumvent full tax bills.

Melissa Bradley, a Marin real estate agent, said it is not good to create high-density developments in the county.

"It looks like you volunteered us for the ghetto, basically," Bradley said. "I don't want these big, ugly buildings."

Adams said removing Marinwood from the development area will go before the Board of Supervisors on July 9 for consideration, and encouraged people to give public comment at that meeting. She said the only difference between including and not including the community in the area is the potential loss of grant funding.

"Those properties are still in our general plan with potential development," Adams said.

Proposed plans for 82 units on five acres at Marinwood Plaza also had the crowd in a fervor, with people shouting at Adams and each other. Adams has long been a proponent of development in this area and said any building will have to go through a full environmental impact review process. She said a lot of people don't want to see a derelict strip mall there.

"The earliest anyone would live in the units would be about three years from now," Adams said. "We're going to have a lot of time to comment on this."

Kathy Gaines said the community has been included in every conversation about the plaza and that some level of housing will likely have to go there.

"Whatever development we come up with at Marinwood Plaza will be a compromise," Gaines said.

Many Marinwood-area residents said they reject plans to rezone Grady Ranch as a site for high-density affordable housing, a designation also proposed for sites in Marin City, Strawberry and the Silveira-St. Vincent's lands. Adams said she is also against these zone designations.

"I do not support rezoning down in the valley. It doesn't make sense," Adams said. "When this issue comes to our board, I will be making that case."